Hello, community.
I am used to do developing inside a podman distrobox container. I realized that Artix does not maintain Distrobox packages. Do you know any solutions beside using the Extra-Repo of Arch? I am open for alternatives to distrobox as well.
Cheers.
Hey Skul,
You're right, Distrobox isn’t officially packaged for Artix, and relying on the Arch extra repo can be a bit of a gray area depending on how strict you are about keeping things purely Artix.
As an alternative, you might want to look into using toolbox or systemd-nspawn, though the latter depends on whether you're using a runit, s6, or OpenRC init system, so setup could require a bit more manual work.
If you're comfortable building from source, Distrobox does support manual installation via GitHub. I’ve seen some folks get it working by pulling in only the needed dependencies without fully enabling Arch repos.
I've added distrobox to galaxy.
Hello.
As stated in the Distrobox wiki, Distrobox can be installed in the Home directory without sudo
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sh -s -- --prefix ~/.local